Dogpatch, USA
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Shmoos!) ran wild in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner strip. It would be a dream that
could still come true, seeing as the sale of the only Dogpatch theme park in
existence just ended last week on eBay – with no bids.
The Dogpatch
theme park, located on almost 150 acres of land in the very gorgeous Marble
Falls, AR, went for sale with a minimum bid set at $1 million.
The
park, which was built in 1968, closed in 1993. It was sold at auction in 1994.
The people who bought it that year are now trying to sell it again after
surviving a court challenge to their ownership in 1999. Ford Carr, one of the
owners, believes the theme park was at one time making a profit before it got
entangled in a bitter divorce case. Carr says his family owned the property
before they sold it to the original theme park developers in the late 1960s. The
theme park went through about four owners before it closed – and from the looks
of it, it may be getting ready for yet another one…
For more on the
history (and the future) of the park, visit http://dogpatchusa.freeservers.com/.
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